Questioning Supplements

Dietary supplements are big business. Three out of four Americans take one or more on a regular basis, and for older Americans the fraction is four out of five. One in three children also take supplements. The estimated number of supplement products increased from 4,000 in 1994 to 50,000-80,000 today. Out of pocket expenditures for herbal and complementary nutritional products are about $50 billion, reports Henry Miller. ¹ Supplements have become a massive industry with plenty of enthusiastic promoters. But for all the research telling us how certain vitamins and nutrients affect our bodies, taking supplements can't always deliver the results we may hope and expect. ²

By BobF on 2022 07 27

Isn't there an expression to the effect of "vitamins make for very expensive urine", since most of them pass through your body anyway?

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By Centrewing on 2022 07 27

I wish more people would report on this, thank you. Do you remember back when they started really pushing these "supplements"? They started out by claiming our soils were depleted of nutrients so our food was not very healthy and the fertilizers applied to keep the plants growing only, remember? and they always promoted getting your vitamins from them. Back then Doctors never pushed drugs and vitamins like they do now. So sad how our medical community was taken over. I remember running into some old friends who were doctors but retired and they also could not believe what happened in our medicine field either.

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